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I n last few years Pro Kabaddi has played a big role in promoting our very own sport. Thanks to PKL we re-remembered the names of our national kabaddi heroes and could keep an eye on the future of this game. PKL managed to divert people’s attention back towards Kabaddi. In the 4 seasons so far, we have witnessed many nail biting encounters and brilliant matches. To fulfil our daily dose of excitement and to give us some more kabaddi, Pro Kabaddi is coming back with brand new season. On the 28 th of July, the season 5 of PKL is starting. This season is promised to be bigger and better than earlier seasons. This year 4 new teams will be participating in the contest. Gujarat Fortunegiants, Tamil Thalaivas, Haryana Steelers and UP Yodhas are the new teams. These new teams are the reason we won’t be seeing the team combinations we know. The players were auctioned again and the old teams are shuffled. This will make it hard for players, as they need to escape their old team habits...

S ometimes it may happen that we didn’t do anything wrong, but we still lose. This is exactly what happened in yesterday’s Cricket World Cup Final against England. Ladies you didn’t do anything wrong, just few mistakes you made was the cost of World Championship. You fought like warriors, until the very end. But sometimes experience is all you need in the big stage finals and that is where our young girls fell short. It’s sad we couldn’t win the world cup. Let’s say we won second place instead of saying we lost the world championship. This year’s Women’s World Cup gave us the glimpse of the shinning future of Women’s cricket. Let’s take a look back at our team’s performance and applaud them for their efforts and achievements. After all they have given us moments to cherish. Smriti Mandhana was 1 st star to emerge with 90 against England in 1 st match and 106 against WI in 2 nd match. Defending a low total of 169 runs against Pakistan proved that Indian bowlers are no less st...

H aving lost against Australia at league stage India needed a great performance to beat them in semis. Since the start of the World Cup on 24 th June, she couldn’t score big. 60 against New Zealand remained her best in league stage. But Semifinal was entirely different matter. And this time she rose to the occasion and smashed 171 not out of just 115 balls. All the frustration of not performing to her abilities melted away with this big knock. Harmanpreet Kaur, truly, is the Beast Under Beauty’s Skin. Even before match, Derby was referred as Indian’s ground. India won the toss and elected to bat first. After losing openers for cheap, everything seemed hard for for India, but yesterday was of India’s vice-captain. We lost Mandhana in first over itself and Punam Raut followed shortly afterwards. India was reduced to 35-2. And now it was the turn of  India’s destructive batswomen, Harmanpreet Kaur. After bringing some stability in innings with Mithali Raj, she started with wh...

F irst match point and a thundering ace. Game, Set, Match and Championship-Mr. Federer. Here we witnessed his reunion with his favourite trophy after the gap of 4 long years. The name R. Federer was engraved for the 8 th time on the most honourable trophy in Tennis. With this title he has extended his tally of Grand Slams to 19, making it insurmountable task for newcomers. That’s why there should be no hesitation in admitting that, Roger Federer is THE KING of this era . If someone would have predicted, after last year’s Wimbledon, that Federer will win Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2017, hardly anyone would have believed it. The thing that seemed almost impossible last year, is reality of this year. When Federer retuned this January, after 6 months away to restore his troubling knee, we got our vintage Federer back. His run so far can be described as nothing but some story from fantasy book series. Since his return he is constantly spinning the clock backwards and redefin...

M ost prestigious event in tennis has came to the end after the heavy dose of finest quality tennis. Like every year, The Championships gave a moments to remember and memories to cherish. Few more pages are added into the constantly evolving Tennis History. The Single's Championships are the most important events and here are the Champions for the year 2017. Saturday and Ladies Single’s final. The sheer old brilliance of Venus Williams was up against the Spanish youngster Gabrine Muguruza. When Williams reached this final she became the oldest female to reach the Wimbledon since 1994, at the age of 37. Venus Williams was in great form as she defeated the youngsters like, Ostapenko and Joanna Konta to reach the Finals. But in the Finals luck was in favour of Muguruza. The 2015 finalist won the match in straight sets with the score of 7-5, 6-0, to win her maiden Wimbledon crown. Learning from the mistakes of 2015 final and playing with confidence, the Spaniard became the ne...

22 nd Asian Athletics Championships came to end yesterday and gave Indians yet another reason to celebrate. This year the championships were held in Bhubaneswar, India. The home advantage proved truly an advantage as India created History in the games. India bagged 29 medals in total to top the table for the first time in 22 editions of Championships. In the total tally of 29 medals, we have 12 Gold and Bronze and 5 silver. In achieving this India left behind the giant China, who finished 2nd. The half of the Gold medals came from our Girls. From the track events, Nirmala Sheoran and PU Chitra won back to back Golds in 400m and 1500m respectively, while Olympic participant Sudha Singh grabed Gold in 3000m Steeplecase. Winning Gold in 4x400m relay Gold and 4x100m Bronze was no less. Not to forget Dutee Chand, who won bronze in 100m sprint even after all the drama she went through before the starting of the Championships. In the Field events, Manpreet Kaur won Gold in Shot put...

N ext two weeks are going to be action packed. Wimbledon park is all set for this year’s competition. The grass is cut, the players have arrived, the draws are made and now we wait for tournament to open. The Wimbledon is starting on Monday and it means history guaranteed. But before we start, it is kind of our duty to know about the seedings and draws and projected progress of top seeds. So, let’s get warmed up to enjoy the tournament to fullest. Beginning from the Ladies’ singles, most time winner, Serena Williams, is out of play due to Pregnancy. Sharapova is not playing again in this grand slam. With defending Champion not playing and Marion Bartoli retired, the only Ladies Singles champions (in last 10 years) that remain in draws are Venus Williams and the returned queen, Petra Kvitova. The major focus will be on them to repeat their triumphs again. Venus the five times Winner and Kvitova two times Winner. Other than them last years runner up Anglique Kerber is seeded 1 st...